{"id":2868,"date":"2013-04-02T14:47:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T12:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2013-04-02T14:47:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T12:47:41","slug":"new-campaign-in-defense-of-a-labourstart-correspondent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2868","title":{"rendered":"New campaign in defense of &#8230; a LabourStart correspondent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right &#8212; for the first time, we&#8217;re being called upon to defend someone who has been a LabourStart correspondent for several years, Andy Hall. \u00a0Andy, who has worked in Thailand, recently did a report for an NGO highlighting claims of abusive and exploitative policies at a company there, alleging among other things the illegal employment of child labour. \u00a0The company has now taken him to court, and if convicted, Andy will not only be subject to a potential fine of millions of Euros, but an actual jail term of several years. \u00a0We&#8217;ve been asked by two GUFs &#8212; BWI and UNI &#8212; to take on this case, and are happy to do so. \u00a0Please do all you can to promote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1765\"><strong>this campaign<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right &#8212; for the first time, we&#8217;re being called upon to defend someone who has been a LabourStart correspondent for several years, Andy Hall. \u00a0Andy, who has worked in Thailand, recently did a report for an NGO highlighting claims of abusive and exploitative policies at a company there, alleging among other things the illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2869,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}